I recently heard a preacher say that
scientists have been studying chaos. Yes, it is actually a science. The
study is called Chaology!

I don't know who funds such a study,
or how it is done... (in a petri dish? I have NO idea!) ...but the
results were quite interesting.
They discovered that what LOOKS like chaos on the surface, is really
particles moving toward their intended end! WOW! Doesn't your mind just
run with that?

Regardless of what your life has been, it doesn't matter how you
started out (in chaos?), it is how you finish that matters... (arriving
at your intended end)! If you think about it, we all have periods of
chaos in life, even Bible heroes. But God makes ORDER out of chaos.
Nothing happens to us without God's ultimate plan in effect.

The Bible says, "I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction (Isaiah
48:10)." God doesn't PUSH us into the fire, we have to CHOOSE to go
into that furnace, because that is where we are chosen FROM! It is not
from the jumping, shouting, praising times, when life is good.

God purifies us to the final level. He's looking for a people who walk
out of the fire! We are not being punished, we are being purified! He
is perfecting what is already inside us... he is refining us as pure
gold. It is in the fire that the gold separates from the dross
(impurities). It is then skimmed off and all that is left is the
purified gold.

We may be tried through lies, gossip, sickness and want... through
loneliness and rejection or financial setbacks. It may be a loss of a
loved one, or even divorce. But God is looking for those who will walk
through and out of these furnaces of affliction. We can get an idea of
how this is accomplished when we read the account of the three Hebrews
who were thrown into a literal fiery furnace, for their belief in God
(Daniel chapter 3).

These men were in REAL chaos! The foreign king had ordered the furnace
to be heated seven times hotter than usual. The Hebrews had refused to
bow down and worship the golden statue that King Nebuchadnezzar had set
up. This "crime" was worthy of death by fire. (He had meant the fiery
furnace of affliction to be a punishment unto death). Even the soldiers
who bound and threw them into the furnace, were killed by the flames,
the heat was so intense.

After a while the King stood up and said, "Didn't we throw three bound
men into the fire? Lo, I see FOUR men loose, unhurt and walking around
in the midst of the fire, and the fourth man looks like the Son of
God!" The king then drew near to the door of the furnace and said
"...you servants of the most high God, come forth and come here." When
they came out, the Bible says that their clothes weren't burned, nor
was their hair singed, nor was even the smell of smoke upon them!

They had been WILLING to go into that furnace, and because of it, they
had no after effects of their fiery trial. Jesus had walked through it
WITH them!

When we go through these chaotic times in life, we must claim, "I shall
not die but LIVE to declare the glory of God!" If we endure with faith,
patience, God's imparted peace and joy, and not try to run from it, nor
fight the flames... but FINISH the furnace experience, we will come
forth as pure gold! We must not even indulge in the residue of
COMPLAINING about what we have suffered!

So many people are in chaos... we are a nation in chaos, feeling so
much fear and doubt about the future. Yet, the FOURTH man is walking in
the midst of His people. We must keep our gaze upon HIM and not on the
flames of our circumstances. We must persevere, endure, and keep the
faith. The Bible tells us that "no weapon formed against us shall
prosper" (Isaiah 54:17).

Jesus is coming VERY soon, now, friends, and it says in the Revelation
19:7, the Lamb's wife has made herself ready. Ephesians 5:27 tells us
that Christ is presenting to Himself a glorious church, not having spot
or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without
blemish. HE is doing it... cleansing us with the washing of the Word,
(and taking us through the fire).

He is moving His people through all this chaos, to bring us to our intended end!
Hallelujah!!

The Pastor's Desk

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